Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot refrain from congratulating you upon the splendid work the Harvard men did yesterday, particularly in the second half. Nothing more disheartening than its opening can be imagined. With an adverse score and a vindictive wind which had been of no service in the first half, suddenly rising to a half gale, so that the flag-staff bent, I could not imagine what instructions you could give the men. In the face of it all to carry the ball 80 yards without once losing it and to a touchdown, was a feat not often seen on any field. I trust...
...given on a more equitable basis, even though "instructors are human." Therefore it is not their honesty he attacks, but the inequality of their judgments. Secondly, in giving their opinions for publication some writers feel a certain apprehension as to the validity of their own convictions and so refrain from singning their names. But their thoughts, such as they are, they give to the public, "carrying with them no higher authority than their logic." It might be well to add here that we are not all "careful students," nor are we all as confident or self-assured that "Junior...
...Cycling Association would esteem it a great favor if all persons would refrain from taking posters of the Five Mile Road Race from places where they are put up until after that event comes off. The posters are expensive and in addition their loss causes considerable annoyance and inconvenience. Several have already disappeared and it does not seem too much to ask that students should abstain from hindering, even if they do not wish to aid, the success of a college event...
...first eleven is sure of his position. Candidates will be given every opportunity to show what they can do. There are a dozen men in college who have not appeared on the field who have every physical qualification for playing the game, with proper training. These men refrain from practice, some from lack of college spirit, some from selfish motives, and some from pure laziness...
...undergraduates in Harvard University to refrain from taking part in any disturbance at the opening of the College year...